Tom Hanks Talks Walt Disney Transformation For Saving Mr. Banks

Transforming into Walt Disney was no easy task for Tom Hanks, but getting the Disney icon’s mustache just right might have been one of the most difficult tasks while filming “Saving Mr. Banks.”

Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush and Kit Hoover sat down with Tom, where he explained just how he got Walt’s trademark look down.

“I don’t have the same facial structure as Mr. Disney had, so the mustache had to have a particular angle to it, it couldn’t be too wide, but it couldn’t be too narrow,” he explained. “It had to have a certain amount of skin between the mustache and the bottom of my nose.”

”[The creative team had] close up, blown up like spy photographs of Walt Disney’s face with arrows and measurements and graphics,” he explained. “Like a scale of hair per centimeter kind of thing. It was a very important mustache.”

Adding, “It was the most analyzed, discussed [mustache], short of getting memos from upstairs in Disney. This was the most important mustache in the history of mankind!”